 Yet, another chapter in the 'death of the newspaper', Jay Mariotti,sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times decided to leave print forother, more enticing opportunities.
After returning from Beijing where he wrote on the Olympics, he decidedto call-it-quits. According to Jim Kirk of the Chicago Tribune,Mariotti stated in a phone interview that he decided to quit after itbecame clear while in Ch...
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 Michael Strahan, formerly of the New York Giants, told FOXSports.com that he will remain retired.
After the 37 year-old Strahan told the NFL network that it would take$8 million and a few kind words to lure him back to the NFL after therecent season ending injury to Giants Defensive End Osi Umenyiora, inthe end he said no. Apparently, the Giants offered him enough money tocome back however, it wa...
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 One of the training camp battles has come to and end today. Kyle Orton,QB, has been named the opening day starter for the Chicago Bears.
He will replace, often criticized and heavily scrutinized Rex Grossman as Lovie Smith's guy.
Grossman had his best season in 2006 leading the Bears to the SuperBowl. However, as we all know being a key figure in getting your teamto the Super Bowl, only to lose,...
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 Sean Salisbury, former 12 year ESPN broadcaster and former MinnesotaViking Quarterback, needed to get something off of his chest. He neededto get it alllllllll off his chest including subjects such as; ESPN,bloggers, texting, being a ladies man, and pictures of his owngenitalia.
Salisbury who's contract ended last March was not renewed by ESPN. Oneof the widely rumored reasons of why Salisbury wa...
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 At the half:
U.S 51
Greece 32
The story so far is Dwyane Wade looking like the D.Wade of 2006 and the U.S. putting the clamps on with suffocating defense.
D. Wade is having a stellar game coming off the bench. Wade's half washighlighted by a 30 foot alley-oop from Kobe Bryant falling out ofbounds to save a loose ball, in the second quarter sparked an 11-0 rungoing into the half.
Greece is supp...
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 There was Harrington at the U.S. Open, the spectacle that was theopening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, the "redeem-team" taking it to the men's Chinese Olympic basketball team, and of course more Favre- who cares? All of these events took a distant 2nd to last night'sevent. If you didn't stay up to watch the Olympic men's 4 X 100 relaylast night you missed the most exciting sport's moment a...
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 It seems the Brett Favre coming to the New York Jets turned into awin-win situation for the J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets and Bill Parcells.
The Jets got their guy in Favre and the Miami Dolphins were able tofind an NFL player willing to play for them. One day after quarterbackChad Pennington was cut by the New York Jets to make roster space forBrett Favre, was signed by the Miami Dolphins.
Penningto...
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 To quote my boy Neetzi, I had the knee pads in full effect earlier this year for Clayton Kershaw. Clayton didn’t disappoint too much, as his second and third starts were a combined eight innings, two earned runs and seven Ks. Kershaw then went on to have a couple rough starts and did eventually get sent back down to the minors. Upon being called back up to pitch against the Rockies in Denver,...
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 It's finally over. 31 days of unprecedented media coverage of one man'sun-retirement - over. Brett Favre was traded late Wednesday night tothe New York Jets.
The draft pick traded for Favre is a conditional 4th round pick. Thedetails consist of if Favre takes 50% of the snaps for the Jets in '08then the 4th round pick becomes a 3rd. If Favre takes 70% of the snapsand the Jets make the playoffs it...
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 Following up from a report with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinelthat the Packers' organization contacted the Minnesota Vikings to openup trade talks, sources are saying this morning that Brett Favre willbe a Minnesota Viking by the end of the day today.
According to the the MJS article the Vikings' organization, even against all the recent "open competition" news, still believe that the Packers do ...
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